xi, 225 pages ; 23 cm

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Preface / Charles W. Toth -- The contentious empires / Marshall Smelser -- The peace of Paris and the politics of sugar / Frank Wesley Pitman -- Creole vs. yankee / Charles M. Andrews -- "In receipt of his majesty's exchequer" / Claude H. Van Tyne -- Yankees and Creoles vs. England / Charles M. Andrews -- Boston to Barbados : the economics of interdependence / Richard Pares -- The founding fathers and the West Indies : the economics of revolution / Curtis P. Nettels -- The sugar colonies during the revolution / Lowell J. Ragatz -- St. Eustatius in the American revolution / J. Franklin Jameson -- Saint Domingue : entrepót for revolutionaries / Rayford W. Logan -- Cuba : outpost for empire / James M. Callahan -- Puerto Rico : the breakdown of Spanish exclusivism / Arturo Morales-Carrión -- St. Croix : years of survival / Florence Lewisohn -- Ten sergeants and two drummers : the Bahamas and the disruption of empire / Michael Craton

They built small ships of cedar : Bermuda and American independence / Henry C. Wilkinson -- The Spanish town papers : some sidelights on west indian privateering / E. Arnot Robertson -- "Upon every principle of true policy" : the West Indies in the second empire / Lowell J. Ragatz -- American and the British West Indies : the post-revolutionary dialogue / Charles W. Toth -- Loyalist exodus to the West Indies : legacy of revolution / Wilbur H. Siebert

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Preface / Charles W. Toth -- The contentious empires / Marshall Smelser -- The peace of Paris and the politics of sugar / Frank Wesley Pitman -- Creole vs. yankee / Charles M. Andrews -- "In receipt of his majesty's exchequer" / Claude H. Van Tyne -- Yankees and Creoles vs. England / Charles M. Andrews -- Boston to Barbados : the economics of interdependence / Richard Pares -- The founding fathers and the West Indies : the economics of revolution / Curtis P. Nettels -- The sugar colonies during the revolution / Lowell J. Ragatz -- St. Eustatius in the American revolution / J. Franklin Jameson -- Saint Domingue : entrepot for revolutionaries / Rayford W. Logan -- Cuba : outpost for empire / James M. Callahan -- Puerto Rico : the breakdown of Spanish exclusivism / Arturo Morales-Carrion -- St. Croix : years of survival / Florence Lewisohn -- Ten sergeants and two drummers : the Bahamas and the disruption of empire / Michael Craton

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